While there were certainly mistakes to learn from, we shouldn’t ignore our successes in 2009. This was artistically and organizationally our most participatory year to date. Despite a surprising 50% growth in attendance (and three major burns), we left it cleaner than previous years. All those with burning art installations took responsibility to clean the debris and plant seed in its place (some even came back a week later to ensure this was done.) Today, a couple months after RR 2009, there is already some grass replacing the scorched earth. Fuck yeah!

All the participants who built and tore down the city (filled with structures people building, cooking, drinking, eating, performing, & dancing) once again left no trace.

Despite the most relentless rainfalls since RR has gone outdoors (turning many tents into swimming pools) there was a major growth in collaborative art structures & villages.

We have seen outstanding readiness & preparation from those who learned from previous years (and no major injuries to report!)

All the team leads, and I mean this, all of them did a kickass job of building talented, responsible, and effective teams who played a major role in this year’s success. Our greatest achievement was collaborative radical inclusion, and we wish to push it even further in 2010. I am proud to say we have gotten the official invite to return to the same land, and we accepted. Recycled Rainbow will begin on Thursday September 23rd, and end on Sunday September 26th.

A once sleeping event awakens to new opportunities & challenges; opportunities for growth (internally and externally,) and there are challenges to build an even more imaginative invisible city.

It starts with our most grueling process of the year: DESIGN!

More specifically next year’s ticket design & business-card sized fliers.

To build on last year’s success of radical inclusion, we are opening up our design team to anyone who wishes to participate. But first, there are three things you must know:

You must adhere to the event’s theme, deadline, and design requirements (of which there are a shit-ton.)

The theme for Recycled Rainbow 2010 is: “Deception?” (the question-mark is deliberate, and must be included whenever you reference this year’s theme in your art work submissions.)

“Deception?” has multiple meanings we encourage you to thematically explore. We deliberately posed it as a question, as deception always is, and always isn’t. Is truth merely perception? How does one discern fact from fiction? Friend from foe? Ally from terrorist? Deception is natural, but not always predictable?

Consider the chameleon blending into its surroundings for survival, or the grasshoppers/crickets you almost always hear, but almost never see, or the 300+ variants of phasmids (stick-bugs) which change their pigmentation to match their surroundings. Humans were not the first to use camouflage. Even plants will sometimes hide other plants from insects, or deceptively make themselves smell like stressed bees to attract bee-eating hornets to get pollinated (is there nothing an orchid won’t do in order to get laid? Assholes!)

Sometimes blue-jays impersonate hawks when swooping down to get food, chasing all the other birds away who are convinced a much larger more menacing bird is about to kill them. Heck, my own cats whine about their hunger when DG comes home, who then feeds them, but when I come home they deceptively whine again hoping to get seconds! (I used to fall for it, but now know better to ask her first.)

It’s not just about magic & illusion & prank. Sometimes the deception we perceive is self-deception.  What you see is not always what you get, but sometimes it is, though you think it isn’t.It isn’t?

Artistically take this in whatever direction you wish.

And nooooooooooow for the design requirements:

Welcome from your friendly Recycled Rainbow fascist design requirements team! This year we have PLENTY of hideous design requirements intentionally built to constrain the hell out of your creativity and make designing tickets and fliers a pain in the ass! But no worries! We’re sure you’ll have a lot of fun putting these designs together as we’ve turned the process into a COMPETITIVE DOUCHEBAG ACTIVITY.

In all seriousness, these are requirements we’ve practiced for the past two years after much learning as to what works, what doesn’t and what must be for getting designs turned around to final print tickets and fliers as fast as possible. The 2010 theme provides for a ton of interesting ideas and the new 2010 logo (if you choose to use it) is eponymous and simple enough to work with any design!

Have fun, be creative, and enjoy!

Ben Q. Mussoleppi
Design Requirements Duce

IMPORTANT! SCHEDULES AND WHERE TO SEND YOUR DESIGNS!

Email your finished designs to: artdept@recycledrainbow.org

Submissions are due no later than midnight, January 15, 2009.

The winning design will be announced to participating designers January 18, 2009

Once a winning design is selected, final revisions will be due January 25, 2009.

The winning design will publicly announced February 1, 2009.

THE 2010 LOGO:

The logo can be used on the ticket and/or flier if you wish, or if you don’t want to use it at all, feel free not to. Designs will not be accepted or denied based on use of the logo and the logo can be placed anywhere you wish. There are no logo use guidelines as the logo is never important other than to have some kind of logo for the event we can use when we need a logo.

The logo can be any color, or combination of colors. It can be rotated or scaled in any way you wish. It can be placed atop any pattern or color you wish.

We don’t care much about our logo.

The 2010 RR logo can be downloaded as an scalable vector graphic (EPS) from: http://www.recycledrainbow.org/2010logo/2010logo.eps

TICKETS! TICKETS! TICKETS!

Tickets are the gateway to the event. We have always wanted to impart a sense of excitement with the ticket design so when a participant receives their ticket in the mail they are excited to go to the event. While tickets are (to me) the most fun and intricate print design job, it is also the most important and include the most design guidelines.

Acceptance of ticket design will be based on READABILITY, creativity, visual appeal, readability and incorporation of the theme (and dis-incorporation of the theme) into the design. Also, readability is important to us.

The theme for 2010 is Deception? (the question mark is required).

OVERALL TICKET DESIGN INFORMATION

Design Options:

1.      The 2010 logo may or may not appear on the ticket and/or flier

Design Requirements:

All designs submitted must meet the following requirements or they will be immediately disqualified.

1.      One eighth inch bleeds on all sides.

2.      Place borders, the edge of important information, etc… at least one quarter of an inch from the edge of the design (one eighth inch inside the cut edge of the ticket).

3.      5.5” (five and one-half inches) tall by 2.125” (two and one eighth of an inch wide) This does not include the bleed. With the bleed, the total size of the submitted design must be five and three-quarters of an inch tall (5.75″) by two and three eighths of an inch wide (2.375″)

4.      One and one eighth inch from the bottom of the ticket a perforation will be die-cut to allow gate staff to tear stubs off the bottom of the ticket for new participants.

5.      A perforation 1.125” from the bottom across the ticket from left to right will be cut into the ticket.

6.      Submitted files must use the CMYK color mode (not RGB)

7.      Files must  be 1200dpi (dots per inch) resolution

8.      Submissions must be either JPEG format with little or no compression or Adobe PDF.

9.     Also, the text on the ticket must be readable.

10.    Tickets MUST be two-sided.

TICKET FRONT:

The front of the ticket is the “fun” side of the ticket. Traditionally, the front of the ticket is intricate and detailed making it easy to spot a fake ticket or a ticket that has simply been photocopied. While it is unlikely someone will try an counterfeit Recycled Rainbow tickets, we thought it would be interesting for you to know why they tend to be kind of complex and detailed.

Content Requirements:

1.      Tickets must include the following information on the front

2.      The words “Recycled Rainbow 2010”

3.      The theme: “Deception?” (the question mark is required).

4.      The words “Admit One” this can be accompanied with any noun you wish (human, etc… as in “Admit One Human” but e.g., can also be “Admit One Deceiver?”)

5.      The date spelled out as: “September 23, 24, 25 & 26” (the year 2010 is optional as it is present in #2 above)

6.      The address: “Big ARB’s Campground, 25091 Buffalo Road, East Rochester, Ohio” (zip code not necessary)

7.      A white box five-sixteenths of an inch (5/16”) tall located no less than three-eighths (3/8”) from the bottom of the ticket, no less than one-half of an inch  (½”) from the sides and no more than one half of an inch (½”) under the perforation.  This is where ticket numbers go.

TICKET BACK:

The back of the ticket is what we like to call “the business end of the ticket”. It includes the most important information all in one place. Here we include the name of the event, the disclaimer, the Leave No Trace statement, the PARTICIPATE! Statement and the web site address: recycledrainbow.org

or www.recycledrainbow .or (either address is acceptable). The following  must be present:

HEADER:

In an area approximately seven-eighths of an inch from the top of the ticket on the back, the following information should appear:

1.      The words “Recycled Rainbow” (DO NOT include the year)

2.      The theme should not be written on the back of the ticket but the design and background of the header and footer can (and should) imply the theme.

3.      The Address “Big ARB’s Campground 25091 Buffalo Rd. East Rochester OH 44625”

4.      The words: “Sun, Rain, Sleet, or Snow”

THE DISCLAIMER:

In an area three and one half inches from the bottom of the header section the following information must be present. THIS IS THE ONLY PART OF THE TICKET WHERE THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF LAYOUT.  IT MUST HAVE A WHITE BACKGROUND WITH BLACK HELVETICA OR ARIAL  TEXT.

YOU VOLUNTARILY ASSUME THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH BY ATTENDING THIS EVENT AND RELEASE RECYCLED RAINBOW FROM ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM THIS RISK. You must bring enough food, water, shelter and first aid to survive for three days in the Ohio woods in the late fall. Commercial vending is prohibited, as are all firearms, fireworks, rockets and other explosives. You agree to read and abide by ALL rules in the Survival Guide listed at www.recycedrainbow.org and to follow federal, state and local laws. This is a LEAVE NO TRACE, pack it in, pack it out event. You are asked to contribute two hours of camp cleanup in addition to your own campsite before departure. Art cars, art installations, theme camps and performances are not owned or operated by Recycled Rainbow and you therefore also assume any and all risk of injury associated with or arising from their operation or occurrence. You appoint Recycled Rainbow as your representative to take actions necessary to protect your intellectual or privacy rights, recognizing that Recycled Rainbow has no obligation to take any action whatsoever. All vehicles including trucks, trailers and RVs entering and exiting Recycled Rainbow are subject to search by the Gate staff. Tickets are nonrefundable. This ticket is a revocable license that may be revoked by Recycled Rainbow for any reason. Use of images taken at Recycled Rainbow (other than personal use) is prohibited without the prior written consent of Recycled Rainbow. Children under 18 years of age can attend the event only accompanied by a parent or guardian, and any person bringing a child to the event agrees for the child to the contractual terms on this ticket. YOUR USE OF THIS TICKET CONFIRMS YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE TERMS REFLECTED ABOVE.

The above disclaimer MUST be readable.

The ALL CAPS text at the beginning and end of the above disclaimer must be in bold face.

THE STUB:

The words “PACK IT IN, PACK IT OUT. LEAVE NO TRACE. PARTICIPATE!” must appear on the back of the tear-away ticket stub (on the opposite side of the ticket number)

FLYER DESIGN

Fliers are business-card side, double-sided and full color. The purpose of the flyer is to be handed out to people interested in learning more about Recycled Rainbow. People receiving fliers must visit the web site for detailed information about the event, requiring they read about it before learning vital information such as address and ticket price.

OVERALL FLIER DESIGN REQUIREMENTS:

1.      Submitted files must use the CMYK color mode (not RGB)

2.      Files must  be 1200dpi (dots per inch) resolution

3.      Submissions must be either JPEG format with little or no compression or Adobe PDF.

4.     Also, the text on the flier must be readable.

Design Options:

1.      Fliers may or may not include the 2010 logo

2.      Fliers may or may not use the same or similar color schemes or designs from the tickets and/or web site.

Design Requirements:

1.      Fliers must be two inches (2”) by three and one half inches (3.5”) this does not include bleeds. The finished height and width of the flyer with bleeds must be two inches and one quarter of an inch (2.25″) by three inches and three quarters of an inch (3.75″).

2.      Fliers must use one eighth inch bleeds

3.      Borders or important information should be one quarter (.25”) from the edge of the design and one eighth inches (.125”) from the cut edge of the flyer.

4.      Fliers MUST NOT include the address of the campground/event.

5.      Fliers MUST include the words “Recycled Rainbow”

6.      Fliers MUST include the date of the event (September 23, 24, 25 & 26)

7.      Fliers MUST include the year (2010)

8.      Fliers MUST include the theme “Deception?” (the question mark is required)

FRONT

1.      Fliers MUST have the theme of the event on the front of the flier.

2.      Fliers MUST have the year on the front of the flier.

REAR

1.      Fliers MUST include the following text on the rear of the flier:

Recycled Rainbow is a four day outdoor event inspired by the Burning Man festival.. Everything is organized, built and paid for by volunteers with their own resources. There are no trash cans, so you will have to pack your trash out with you. There are no vendors, so you will have to bring enough food, drink and whatever else you need for four days. There are no schedules or rules, so you will have to make things happen yourself and respect your neighbor.

2.      Fliers MUST include the following text on the rear of the flier:

For More Information And To Buy Tickets Visit: www.recycledrainbow.org

recycledrainbow.org

(without the www) is also acceptable

everyman